The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe

The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe
The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe
Directed by	Mario Caiano
Screenplay by	Mario Caiano; Fabrizio Trifone Trecca
Story by	Carlo Alberto Alfieri; Mario Caiano; Fabrizio Trifone Trecca; (as T.F. Karter)
Produced by	Renato Angiolini; Roberto Bessi
Starring	Chen Lee; Carla Romanelli; Gordon Mitchell; Piero Lulli; Katsutoshi Mikuriya; Giacomo Rossi-Stuart; Robert Hundar; Klaus Kinski
Cinematography	Guglielmo Mancori
Edited by	Amedeo Giomini
Music by	Bruno Nicolai
Production; companies	C.B.A. Produttori e Distributori Associati; Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
Distributed by	Jumbo Cinematografica
Release date	28 December 1973
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe (Italian: Il mio nome è Shanghai Joe, lit. "My name is Shanghai Joe") is a 1973 Spaghetti Western kung fu film directed by Mario Caiano and starring Chen Lee as Shanghai Joe. The film was released in a number of alternate titles in the United States, including To Kill or to Die and The Dragon Strikes Back.^[1]

Plot[]

A Chinese immigrant, recently arrived in America, travels to Texas looking for honest work. However, all he encounters is racism. He soon impinges on the interests of a slave trader called Spencer, ending up with a price on his head. "Shanghai Joe" uses his martial arts expertise to free the Mexican slaves from their cruel master, but then Spencer and his friends decide to hire the four most terrifying bounty hunters of the West, among them a cannibal, a scalp hunter and last but not the least, another martial arts champion, his old mate Mikuja.